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A 68-year-old male patient was admitted to the Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, with a two-year history of a growing, painless skin tumor of the right preauricular region. The patient was eligible for surgical treatment with elective neck dissection at the Va, III, II, I levels with parotidectomy and the excision of the cSCC. In the histopathological examination of the components of the surgical specimen beside the primary cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), a parotid WT was found; in the majority, it was occupied and destroyed by the metastatic cSCC and radically removed. After a tumor board consultation, due to the advanced stage (pT3N2b LVI2 PNI0 R0), with three intraparotid lymph node metastases and LVI2, the patient was authorized for postoperative radiotherapy. In conclusion, tumor-to-tumor metastasis is an extremely rare entity. Surgery is the standard of care for both WTs and head and neck cSCC. In most cases, metastasis into the parotid gland can be successfully treated with superficial parotidectomy with facial nerve preservation. 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